Companion encyclopedia of the history of medicine /
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1993.
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Table of Contents:
- v. 1. Art and science of medicine
- Place of medicine
- What is specific to Western medicine
- Historiography of medicine
- Medical care
- Body systems
- Anatomical tradition
- Microscopical tradition
- Physiological tradition
- Biochemical tradition
- Pathological tradition
- Immunological tradition
- Clinical research
- Theories of life, health and disease
- Concepts of health, illness and disease
- Ideas of life and death
- Humoralism
- Environment and miasmata
- Contagion/germ theory/specificity
- Nosology
- Ecology of disease
- Fevers
- Constitutional and hereditary disorders
- Mental diseases
- Nutritional diseases
- Endocrine diseases
- Tropical diseases
- Cancer
- Sexually transmitted diseases
- Diseases of civilization
- Understanding disease
- Unorthodox medical theories
- Non-western concepts of disease
- Folk medicine
- Arab-Islamic medicine
- Chinese medicine
- Indian medicine
- v. 2. Clinical medicine
- History of the doctor-patient relationship
- Art of diagnosis: medicine and the five senses.
- (cont) Science of diagnosis: diagnostic technology
- History of medical ethics
- Women and medicine
- Drug therapies
- Physical methods
- Surgery (traditional)
- Surgery (modern)
- Psychotherapy
- Childbirth
- Childhood
- Geriatrics
- Medicine in society
- History of the medical profession
- medical education
- Hospital
- Medical institutions and the state
- Public health
- Epidemiology
- History of personal hygiene
- General history of nursing: 1800-1900
- Emergence of para-medical professions
- Psychiatry
- Health economics: finance, budgeting and insurance
- Medicine, ideas and culture
- Medicine and colonialism
- Internationalism in medicine and public health
- Medicine and anthropology
- Religion and medicine
- Charity before c.1850
- Medical philanthropy after 1850
- Medicine and architecture
- Medicine and literature
- War and modern medicine
- Pain and suffering
- Medical technologies: social contexts and consequences
- Medicine and the law
- Medical sociology
- Demography and medicine
- Medicine, mortality and morbidity.